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FBI employee allegedly points gun at woman’s head inside Hingham restaurant

March 23, 2016

An FBI employee was arrested Tuesday night after allegedly pointing a handgun at a woman’s head during a disturbance inside a Hingham restaurant.

James Doyle, 55, of Duxbury, was charged with assault with a dangerous weapon, carrying a firearm while intoxicated, and disorderly conduct, according to Hingham police. He was arraigned Wednesday night and released, police said.

Police responded to Gourmet Garden Restaurant on Whiting Street just before 8:50 p.m. Tuesday. Doyle was still seated at the bar with a handgun in the holster of his waistband
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December 22, 2010 - 12:00am
FBI agent convicted in hammer slaying

A retired FBI agent
was found guilty of voluntary manslaughter Tuesday for the slaying of his son's girlfriend in November 2008.

Prosecutors said Preciado-Nuno beat Long to death with a hammer, striking her more than a dozen times in the head. She also had numerous defense wounds, prosecutors said.
The jury saw graphic photos of the crime scene and autopsy photos of Long's head that showed half a dozen wounds made by a hammer to the back of her head.

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Married FBI agent murders his pregnant informant lover
Family Seethes



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Posted: August 12, 1990
PIKEVILLE, Ky. — Before depositing the nude body of his pregnant lover and informant in a weed-covered ravine,


He later confessed to strangling in a fit of "uncontrolled rage," did not deter FBI agent Mark Putnam from hiding his crime.

By his own account, instead of turning himself in, Putnam called his wife, Kathy, methodically cleaned the blood out of his blue Ford Tempo rental car and then lied repeatedly to Kentucky State Police investigating Smith's June 8, 1989, disappearance.

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Married FBI Official Gets Six Years


Thursday, March 13, 2008
In a courtroom crowded with his friends from law enforcement, a FBI official was sentenced yesterday to six years in prison for torturing his girlfriend at knifepoint and gunpoint during a six-hour ordeal in her Crystal City high-rise apartment.
Carl L. Spicocchi, 55, a 19-year FBI veteran who had run t
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Consultants uncover deep problems within Denver Sheriff Department


PUBLISHED: May 20, 2015 at 3:08 pm | UPDATED: April 24, 2016 at 6:16 am



The safety of Denver jail inmates and deputies is jeopardized because of problems at almost every level of the Denver Sheriff Department, a report produced by two consultants says.

The long-awaited report, which will be released Thursday, offers a sweeping — and sometimes scathing — look at the department. Its recommendations range from changing the culture to changing the style of underwear issued to inmates.

The leadership deficit is so deep that consultants advise city officials to go outside the department to hire a new sheriff, according to the report, which was obtained by The Denver Post prior to its official release.

DOCUMENT: Read the full report on the Denver Sheriff Department

The report, produced by Hillard Heintze of Chicago and OIR Group of Los Angeles for $295,000, delivers 14 key findings and 277 recommendations for change.

Mayor Michael Hancock ordered the review in the summer of 2014 after a string of excessive-force cases shamed the department and cost the city more than $9 million in legal settlements and lawyers’ fees.




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Denver Sheriff Department spent $14 million on OT in 2016 despite surge in hiring
In 2016, one deputy earned $111,081 in overtime pay, while three other deputies earned more than $90,000 each in overtime, according to the safety department.



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Denver Sheriff Department suspends deputies for falsifying time cards
Other disciplinary cases in June included deputies involved in previous case of preferential treatment, use of force



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Justice locked inside old rape kits
BY LINDA FAIRSTEIN
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Thursday, August 10, 2017, 5:00 AM


Sex crimes from long ago, unsolved for far too long, are now getting the leadership they deserve from the Manhattan district attorney. Victims are getting justice.

As a proud pioneer in using DNA to prosecute old cases, I’m thrilled to see this happening. But far too many states and jurisdictions are still dragging their heels. Recognizing the tremendous advances in forensic science, everyone must get on board the cold-case caravan.

The arc of my career is a testament to the power of this technology. I remember how, in 1984, as a young prosecutor in Manhattan’s Sex Crimes Unit, I took an 8-year-old child by the hand and walked into the grand jury room.

With enormous courage, she faced the 23 adults and described how she was forced to the rooftop in Harlem and sexually assaulted. She was too young to know the language of the acts performed, but answered my questions with such clarity that there was no doubt about her veracity.

William Dixon, a 25-year-old man, was caught running from the building. He pleaded guilty to the indictment. Sentenced to 10 years, he served only four.

Remember that girl. She reenters the story later.

In 1986, I was one of the first prosecutors in the country asked to use DNA, then a new technique, in the investigation of a murder. It took six months to get a result, and the judge in my case did not allow me to use the findings — linking the killer and his weapon to the dead woman — because he deemed DNA too unreliable.


By 1989, courts began to admit DNA findings, and we used it both to convict and exonerate the accused.

In 1994, an 11-year-old child was assaulted in her building in Hamilton Heights at knifepoint. Her unidentified assailant escaped.

A rape kit was used to collect evidence — including a vaginal swab that yielded the attacker’s DNA. At that time, since there was no suspect against whom the DNA profile could be compared, the kit was stored in the police property clerk’s warehouse with thousands of others.

In 1999, when the first national DNA databank was established, we in Manhattan partnered with the mayor’s office and NYPD to locate untested kits, outsource them to private labs, and become the first city in the country to eliminate the backlog of evidence kits — 16,000 of them.

We solved some crimes decades after they had occurred, offering justice to victims of violence who had long ago given up hope of anyone in law enforcement remembering their cases.

In 2002, the evidence found in the 1993 exam of the 11-year-old girl was submitted to the databank. There was no match.

But we adapted another innovative technique — one used by a Milwaukee prosecutor named Norm Gahn. We indicted unapprehended rapists, calling each John Doe, with his distinctive DNA profile as the identifier.

So in 2003, Assistant DA Martha Bashford questioned the witness who had been assaulted at the age of 11, in the same grand jury room where I took the testimony of the 8-year old girl years earlier.

Her perpetrator was indicted as John Doe.

Fast forward to late 2016. William Dixon — now 56 years old — was convicted of raping a 12-year-old in the Bronx. Dixon’s DNA profile was entered into the Combined DNA Index System, or CODIS databank — at last — as a convicted offender.

That profile linked immediately to Bashford’s John Doe suspect, and the long-cold case of the 11-year-old child from Hamilton Heights was solved.

The woman — now 35 — was thrilled to learn that her attacker had been found. My 8-year-old victim — now 42 — was equally pleased and relieved. The memories of the assault have not faded for either.

Manhattan DA Cyrus Vance Jr. and his extraordinary team of sex crimes prosecutors are the nation’s leaders in this backlog elimination. They understand that by taking dusty evidence kits off storage shelves, heinous crimes can be stopped.

In 2015, Vance dedicated $38 million from civil forfeiture proceedings — not taxpayer dollars — to offer grants to other jurisdictions, paying for the testing of 57,000 kits across America.

The preliminary results from this project are in, and they are staggering. So far, up to 39,000 kits have been submitted to labs for testing. Of the first 4,000 profiles entered into CODIS, 48% of them yielded hits — and a quarter of them match DNA from other sexual assault cases.

How is it that there are legislators and prosecutors who refuse to fund testing, or to pass legislation to mandate that it be done? Why is it that New Jersey and Massachusetts still cannot provide the number of untested kits within their jurisdictions? What becomes of the 850 shelved boxes in Austin, Tex., that are covered in mold? Why did authorities in Southern California throw away scores of untested kits?

There is a rape victim whose trauma is documented inside



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Alaskan towns at risk from rising seas sound alarm as Trump pulls federal help
Communities in danger of falling into the sea say assistance from Washington has dried up: ‘It feels like a complete abdication of responsibility on climate change’

According to the Army Corps of Engineers, 31 Alaskan communities face “imminent” existential threats from coastline erosion, flooding and other consequences of temperatures that are rising twice as quickly in the state as the global average. A handful – Kivalina, Newtok, Shishmaref and Shaktoolik – are considered in particularly perilous positions and will need to be moved.




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Climate change will hit New England hard, report says
The Northeast will experience warmer temperatures, higher seas, and greater amounts of rain and snow than federal scientists forecast only three years ago, according to a draft of a major report about climate change awaiting the approval of the Trump administration.

The findings were based on an array of new research tools and methods that have sharpened climate scientists’ understanding of how climate change will affect the United States, a greater clarity that one scientist likened to the vast improvement in the images of cellphone cameras over the years.






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Secret Service spends $13,500 on golf cart rentals for President Trump's Bedminster trip
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Subject: Sunshine Law Request: FL Prohibited Prison Materials
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Pursuant to Florida's Sunshine Law (Fla. Stat. secs. 119.01 to 119.15 (1995)), I hereby request the following records:
All lists of material that is prohibited for Florida prisoners, including periodicals, books and audio
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Go behind the scenes of the movie "Above Suspicion," or "Blood Mountain," which has been filming in Fayette and Bourbon counties. The film stars Jack Huston and Emilia Clarke.

Former Kentucky FBI agent relives notorious case as movie consultant

MAY 27, 2016 12:13 PM

Three movie producers were talking on the front steps of the Bourbon County Courthouse one day last week as a crew shot scenes inside the historical building for a film about an FBI agent who killed a pregnant informant in Eastern Kentucky.

A crew member approached, but he wasn’t after the brass. The director of Above Suspicion wanted Jim Huggins, a former FBI supervisor in Kentucky working as a technical adviser on the film.

It was an indication of Huggins’ value to the project, producer Colleen Camp said.



“You’ve got three producers standing here, and Jim Huggins is standing next to the director on the set,” Camp said.


The movie is based on a 1989 case in which FBI agent Mark Putnam strangled his informant, Susan Daniels Smith, in a fit of rage in Pike County in June 1989.

Huggins, who is 77 and retired, is an expert on the case.

He was head of the Lexington FBI office at the time and led the agency’s piece of the investigation that ended in Putnam pleading guilty to manslaughter in June 1990 — the first agent ever convicted of a homicide.

The filmmakers brought Huggins on to coach actors playing FBI agents on the right look, language and attitude — everything from the words an agent would use and the correct way to carry a handgun while chasing a suspect, to tactics for surrounding a house during a raid.

One of his first assignments from director Phillip Noyce, who has run films starring some of Hollywood’s biggest stars, was to work with Jack Huston, the actor playing Putnam. Huston’s credits include Boardwalk Empire, and he is filming the new movie version of Ben-Hur.

“He said, ‘I’d like you to turn him into an FBI agent. You’ve got eight hours,” Huggins said with a laugh.

He said Huston has been a quick study.

Noyce and Camp also had Huggins go over the script and incorporated many of his suggestions.

For instance, the original script had a scene in which Putnam tries to intimidate a local officer, threatening to make trouble with the officer’s boss if he doesn’t cooperate.

Huggins told the filmmakers that’s not how an agent would approach a local officer whose help he wanted.

“That makes no sense to come in on your high horse,” Huggins said. “They wrote that totally out
Huggins said he has seen no evidence of stereotypical Hollywood egos among the actors or others involved with the film

“The ones I’ve met so far have been unbelievably nice,” he said.

Noyce wants Huggins close by when filming FBI scenes and often asks him questions. Huggins said he has gotten used to hearing the Australian director call, “Jimmy, where are you, mate?” throughout the day.

Once, Noyce wanted to check whether an actor’s badge was in the right place on his belt. Whle filming a chase scene, Noyce wondered whether it was plausible that Putnam would look under the suspect’s vehicle after he jumped out and ran.

For one scene, Noyce had Huggins put notes describing an FBI assignment on a chalkboard in the background. In another, Noyce asked him to come up with a chart describing a drug organization for use as a prop.

The woman in charge of hair on the film, Colleen Labaff, even wanted to know what length state police officers would have worn their hair in 1990. Huggins took a look at two extras playing troopers and suggested a trim, which was done in short order.

Huggins said he has been impressed by the crew’s efforts to get details right.

“He’s trying to be as accurate as he can be,” Huggins said of Noyce.

Camp, a high-energy veteran of more than 100 film and television appearances with a growing list of credits as a producer, said Huggins has a great way with people and that his knowledge has been crucial to the authenticity of the movie.

“I can tell you it’s invaluable,” said Camp.

Huggins, an Estill County native, returned to Kentucky in 1977 from FBI assignments elsewhere. From then until he retired from the bureau in 1995, he conducted or supervised many of the state’s biggest corruption cases.

Those included a case in the late 1970s in which Sonny Hunt, former head of the state Democratic Party, went to prison in a scheme involving kickbacks for state contracts; an investigation in which three sheriffs, a deputy and a police chief in Eastern Kentucky went to prison for taking payoffs; and a case in the early 1990s in which 15 sitting or former lawmakers, and a top aide to ex-Gov. Wallace Wilkinson and one of the state’s most influential legislative lobbyists, were convicted on corruption charges.

The Putnam case was unlike any other in FBI history, however.

Putnam was fresh out of the FBI academy when he and his wife, Kathy, moved to Pikeville for his first assignment in early 1987.

Smith became an informant for him a few months later on a bank robbery she knew about, and the two ultimately began an affair. Smith’s brother said Smith and Putnam had sex in his car while parked on strip-mine roads.

Just before Putnam transferred to Miami in early 1989, Smith told him she was pregnant with his child. When he returned to Kentucky in June 1989 to prepare for a trial, the two went in his rental car to a secluded mountain road to talk.

Putnam said that after Smith threatened to jeopardize his career and marriage by telling the FBI and his wife about the pregnancy, then got mad and started slapping him, he snapped and choked her to death.

He hid her body in a ravine the next day.

State police didn’t focus on Putnam as a possible suspect for months as they ruled out what they saw as more likely candidates in Smith’s disappearance, including drug dealers with whom she’d been involved and her abusive ex-husband.

Ultimately, however, police began to focus on Putnam, and the FBI joined the case.

Huggins and state police officers went to Miami in May 1990 to question Putnam. He denied any knowledge of Smith’s disappearance, but there were indications he was lying.

At one point, for instance, Huggins asked Putnam about Smith’s age and he said, “She was 28.”

“Was — right out of the box,” Huggins said.

Putnam readily agreed to Huggins’ request for him to take a polygraph test, saying he wanted to cooperate and get the inquiry behind him.

The next day, the examiner stopped the test after just a few questions because Putnam showed “major deception” when he said he didn’t cause Smith’s death, Huggins said.

It would have been hard to make a case against Putnam without Smith’s body. But Putnam agreed to show police where Smith was and plead guilty to manslaughter in return for a 16-year sentence.

Putnam said his conscience had bothered him so badly that he was plagued by nightmares and bouts of diarrhea, and he had scratched his chest until it was raw.

Putnam, whose wife died while he was in prison, was released in 2000 after serving 10 years and has kept a low profile since. Huggins said some Internet research he did indicates that Putnam is working as a personal trainer in Georgia.

Huggins said it has been fascinating to watch the complex process of turning the sad story into a movie. The time required to set up as a technical advisor on

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FBI agent claimed he shot his wife in self-defence

The jury were torn.



There was no doubt Art Gonzales, 43, had shot and killed his estranged wife Julie, 42, on 19 April 2013.

He’d confessed as much to emergency services operators as Julie lay dying on the floor of their home in Virginia, USA.


He also admitted being a trained FBI agent…

As Art was marched from the house by police, his wife was pronounced dead in hospital.

Yet Art claimed he’d acted in self-defence.

Julie’s parents Rey and Maryetta Serna were heartbroken, bewildered.

‘Why would he do that? They weren’t even living together,’ Rey said.


He refused to believe his daughter had attacked first.

‘That wasn’t her character, it’s not who she was,’ he said.

Julie and Art were college sweethearts. They’d married in 1995 and, later, Art joined the FBI, becoming a field agent in California.

He’d transferred to Texas before rising to Supervisor in a New Mexico field office in 2005.

The couple then moved to Stafford, Virginia, when Art was promoted to teach Ethics at the FBI Academy.


His supervisor described him as motivated, dedicated and compassionate.

‘One of the good ones,’ he said.

And he claimed that, by pulling the trigger, Art had only done what the FBI had trained him to do.

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Still, the police had doubts, and, three weeks after Julie’s death, Art Gonzales was arrested for murder.


But only he and Julie knew what’d really happened that day. And Julie was dead.

Which is perhaps why, after two court trials, both juries had been deadlocked, unable to find the truth from the evidence.

During the first trial, Art was charged with murder. During the second, the charge was reduced to voluntary manslaughter. But, despite two hung juries, the prosecution wouldn’t give up.

So, in July 2015, more than two years after Julie’s death, Art faced a third trial, again for voluntary manslaughter.

This time, there’d be no jury. A judge alone would decide Gonzales’ fate.


According to Art, the day had started pleasantly.

He’d taken the day off, had lunch with a friend. Only, to his surprise, when he arrived home, Julie was in the kitchen.

But she wasn’t supposed to be, because Art had filed for divorce in June 2012, and Julie had moved out. She’d willingly given him custody of their boys, aged 12 and 10.

However, divorce after nearly 20 years of marriage was proving tough. He said Julie was dragging her heels, things were contentious.

A row had broken out.

Art claimed his wife came at him with a knife. And, on instinct, to defend himself, he reached into his holster, pulled out his FBI-issued weapon and shot Julie four times in quick succession.

Then he called the emergency services.

‘My wife just attacked me with a knife and I had to shoot her,’ he was recorded telling the operator. ‘She cut my arm.’

The emergency call was played to the court.

He was heard vomiting as a dispatcher gave him instructions on how to do CPR.

But, with each trial, each side dug deeper.

It emerged Art had been having an affair with a 24-year-old FBI agent.

It was even said he had an ‘obsession’ with her.

Was this his motive?

Then Art and some of his friends told the court Julie had a drinking problem.

Art claimed he would come home, find her passed out, drunk.

Julie’s friends rubbished this, claiming Art was ‘controlling’, and would constantly call, demanding to know where she was.

Plus, tests showed there was no alcohol in Julie’s blood on the day she died.

Prosecutors were sure Art had staged the whole scene, from putting the knife in Julie’s hand, down to pretending to vomit when he called police.

Lawyer Eric Olsen accused Art Gonzales of ‘lying repeatedly’ to the court about his affair, and about the alleged attack.

He said, ‘The only evidence that Julie Gonzales came at Art Gonzales with a knife comes from Art Gonzales.

‘Two worlds came together that day, and the result was the death of Julie Gonzales,’ he added.

A forensic expert testified that one of the bullets had hit a hard surface as it’d passed through Julie.

The prosecution claimed this was proof that Julie was on the floor when Art shot her – hardly the actions of an FBI agent shooting in self-defence.



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Tuesday, November 14, 2017

Election 2017: Repudiation of Republicans


Several million Americans voted last Tuesday in the first nationwide election since Donald Trump became President. In the 4-year cycle, this year has the fewest significant election results: two governorships (36 next year) and three state legislative chambers (87 next year) were decided. The media repeated constantly the idea that this was a referendum on Trump’s performance, which is true, but only part of the story. Every race concerned local issues and local personalities, yet we can learn much about our national mood from these statewide and local elections.

Most results are easily predictable from previous elections, because fundamental voting patterns remain dominant. The only Congressional election, replacing Utah Republican Jason Chaffetz who had resigned to become a FOX commentator, was won by another Republican with 58% of the vote. In New York, Democrat Bill de Blasio won overwhelming reelection as mayor, but lost Staten Island, typically a Republican stronghold, to his Republican challenger. In elections for NY City Council, 41 of 42 incumbents won and the last incumbent was in a race too close to call. All seven NY big city mayors won re-election, including the Republican mayor of Binghamton.

Only 2 incumbents lost in the 40-seat New Jersey Senate. Democrats picked up one seat in the Senate and one in the NJ House.

Exit polls in Virginia show how demographic differences in voter preference stayed relatively stable. Just as in the Clinton-Trump contest, voters over 45, men, and whites were more Republican, and women, under 45, and voters of color were more Democratic. The western mountainous regions went Republican and the Washington DC suburbs went Democratic.

But small shifts within these groups had major consequences for the outcome. Democrats slightly increased their percentage of votes in all demographic groups over previous years. For example, Trump won 52% among men and 59% of whites, but the Republican candidate for Governor, Ed Gillespie, won 50% and 57%. Clinton won 56% of women’s votes, but the Democrat Ralph Northam won 61%. The biggest shifts toward Democrats were among young voters 18-29 and middle-class voters with incomes of $50-100,000. The movement toward Democrats repositioned the Virginia House of Delegates, where Republicans held a huge 66-34 seat majority and all 100 seats were in play. Democrats defeated 10 Republican incumbents and picked up at least 15 seats, with 3 Republican seats still too close to call. Control of the Virginia legislature remains in doubt.

The deciding factor in this major legislative shift in Virginia may have been turnout. In the 15 districts that Democrats picked up, turnout increased by 26%.

A different sort of small shift occurred in Washington state, where only 5 state Senate seats were up for election. Two Democratic and two Republican incumbents won huge victories in safe districts, but one open seat in a formerly Republican district was won by a Democrat, switching control of the Senate from a one-vote Republican majority to a one-vote Democratic majority. Three other state legislative seats were flipped, all from Republicans to Democrats, in New Hampshire and Georgia.

Dissatisfaction with Trump and Republican politics since his election is certainly one reason for Democratic gains through higher turnout in these local elections. Another change that exhibited renewed liberal energy was the success of new candidates from previously under-represented groups. Trump’s sexism brought out an army of female candidates who won historic victories. In Newton, MA, and Manchester, NH, the first women were elected mayors. Seattle elected its first woman mayor since the 1920s, and the number of female mayors in larger Washington cities rose from 11 to 27. Women increased their numbers on city councils in Massachusetts to nearly half in Boston and Newton, and doubled their numbers in Cambridge, including the first Muslim woman. In Atlantic City, NJ, 32-year-old Ashley Bennett, who had never held public office, defeated 58-year-old John L. Carman, well-known in local politics for 20 years, for county commissioner.

Non-whites won election firsts: the first black female mayor in Charlotte, NC, and a majority of people of color on the Seattle city council. At least 7 cities elected their first black mayor, including Wilmot Collins, a refugee from Liberia, who was elected mayor of Helena, Montana. Elizabeth Guzman, an immigrant from Peru, trounced a retired Army colonel who has served in the Virginia legislature for 15 years in a traditionally Republican-leaning DC suburb.

Openly transgender candidates won unprecedented victories: first to win election to a state legislature – Danica Roem in Virginia; first to win election to city council seat in a major city – Andrea Jenkins in Minneapolis; first to win any election in Pennsylvania – Tyler Titus in Erie school board.

The Washington Post wondered whether “the Trump era will one day be remembered as the last gasp of white male privilege.” That will only happen if Trump continues his descent into national disapproval and the energy of liberal voters can be sustained through more election cycles.

Steve Hochstadt
Boston MA
Published in the Jacksonville Journal-Courier, November 14, 2017
Posted by Steve Hochstadt at 7:46 AM






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NOVEMBER 14, 2017 | PETER JANNEY
ANATOMY OF A CIA ASSASSINATION: THE CHASE
Excerpt from Mary’s Mosaic THIRD Edition, by Peter Janney

Who killed President John F. Kennedy’s mistress, and why?

In searching for the answers to this mystery, author Peter Janney came upon what seem to be the jagged fragments of an even bigger picture.

Previously, we posted excerpts from Janney’s remarkable book on the murder of Kennedy’s mistress, Mary Pinchot Meyer — Mary’s Mosaic: The CIA Conspiracy to Murder John F. Kennedy, Mary Pinchot Meyer, and Their Vision for World Peace: Third Edition (Skyhorse Publishing, 2016). The excerpts were from Chapter 2, which we broke up into three parts, here, here, and here.

We now present the first of two more excerpts, taken from Chapter 12 (but with added subheading).

In this installment, Janney describes the amazing things he hears during his search for the killer, and his frustrating attempts to substantiate these stories. They are fascinating though unproven.

But the essential parts of the story are proven fact.

And, by the way, the assassination of Kennedy — the crime of the century — seems connected to Meyer’s murder.

–WhoWhatWhy Introduction by Milicent Cranor

“We do it better”
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With New England blanketed by a winter blizzard in early 2004, I found myself stranded in Santa Monica, California, when my return flight to Boston was canceled. Rescheduling at a local travel agency, I ran into Hollywood actor Peter Graves.

Graves, readers may recall, was one of the stars of the 1966 television series Mission Impossible. The show was a fictionalized chronicle of an ultra secret team of American government agents known as the Impossible Missions Force. Peter Graves played the part of Jim Phelps, the team leader who began each episode selecting a cadre of skilled contract agents to accomplish the assigned clandestine mission.

Each week a new episode followed the exploits of the elite Impossible Missions Force as it employed the latest technological gadgets and state-of-the-art disguises in an effort to sabotage unfriendly governments, dictators, crime syndicates — any enemy of American hegemony. The organization that masterminded these covert operations was never revealed, yet a little imagination led to the doorstep of the CIA. So successful was Mission Impossible, it has currently (as of 2011) spawned four blockbuster Hollywood action films starring Tom Cruise.

As Peter Graves and I waited in line, I introduced myself, then started regaling him with how I had watched the show with my father, who had been instantly enamored, never wanting to miss an episode. Mentioning my father’s CIA career, and how he’d been such a fan of Graves’s character, Jim Phelps, I shared with him the memory of one particularly exciting episode, filled with intricate disguises, duplicity, and intrigue.

At the end of the episode, my father had abruptly chortled, intriguingly smiling, finally blurting out, “We do it better.”

“I’m not at all surprised,” Peter Graves shot back. “We had several ex-CIA people who worked with the writers for the show. We could never have thought a lot of that stuff up on our own.”

Mission Impossible
Cast of Mission Impossible. From left: Leonard Nimoy, Greg Morris, Lesley Anne Warren, Peter Lupus and Peter Graves. Photo credit: CBS Television / Wikimedia

“I’ve had the feeling I was kinda set up there”
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The serendipity of this encounter eluded me for months. For years during my research, the “Rubik’s Cube” of the murder of Mary Meyer had remained impenetrable — until a mysterious linchpin was uncovered and further corroborated.

It was only then that I began to understand the ingenious design that had been employed — one that created the illusion of something very different from what had actually occurred.

Throughout the three years Leo Damore [an investigative journalist] spent interviewing attorney Dovey Roundtree [attorney for the accused Ray Crump Jr.], the two were unequivocally convinced that Ray Crump Jr. could never have murdered Mary Pinchot Meyer. The seasoned defense attorney, imbued with an instinctive, gut-level feeling for who people really were — saints and murderers alike — never forgot her impressions upon first meeting Crump.

“He was,” Roundtree said in her 2009 autobiography, “incapable of clear communication, incapable of complex thought, incapable of grasping the full weight of his predicament, incapable most of all, of a murder executed with the stealth and precision and forethought of Mary Meyer’s [murder].”1

Yet tow-truck driver Henry Wiggins Jr. had, in fact, seen somebody standing over Mary’s corpse within fifteen seconds or so right after the second, final shot rang out. Whoever it was, he might well have been approximately “5 feet 8 inches” in height and weighed “185 pounds.” But it couldn’t have been Ray Crump.

Indeed, the most intriguing aspect of Wiggins’s testimony during the trial concerned the appearance, clothes, and demeanor of the man he saw standing over the body.

Wiggins had described the color and style of the clothes in some detail — dark trousers, black shoes, a beige-colored waist-length zippered jacket, and a dark-plaid brimmed golf cap — all of which matched what Crump had been wearing that day. Prosecutor Alfred Hantman had explicitly asked Wiggins about the appearance of the man he saw standing over the body:

HANTMAN: Could you tell the court and the jury the state of the jacket at the time you saw it on the individual who stood over the body of Mary Meyer?

WIGGINS: The jacket appeared to be zipped.

HANTMAN: Did you see the jacket torn in any manner at the time?

WIGGINS: I didn’t notice any tear.2

Nor had Wiggins mentioned seeing any stains — blood or anything else — on the zipped-up, light-colored beige jacket worn by the man who supposedly, just seconds before, had been engaged for more than one minute in a violent, bloody struggle during which the first gunshot, according to the coroner, had produced “a considerable amount of external bleeding.”3

In fact, Wiggins never indicated anything about the man’s appearance being in any way disheveled, given the murder that had just taken place. Neither his demeanor nor his clothes had ever, according to Wiggins’s testimony, indicated the man had been in any struggle just seconds before. His golf cap was perfectly in place; his jacket, clean and zipped.

Also intriguing was the demeanor of the man. Upon looking up and seeing Wiggins staring at him, he was composed and unconcerned — certainly not at all agitated or anxious that Wiggins had spotted him.

HANTMAN: Now, what, if anything did you see this man do who you say was standing over a woman on the towpath at that time?

WIGGINS: Well, at that time, when I saw him standing over her, he looked up.

HANTMAN: Looked up where?

WIGGINS: Looked up towards the wall of the canal where I was standing.

HANTMAN: Were you looking directly at him at that point?

WIGGINS: I was looking at him.

HANTMAN: Then what happened?

WIGGINS: I ducked down behind the wall at that time, not too long, and I come back up from behind the wall to see him turning around and shoving something in his pocket.4

The man then, Wiggins added, “turned around and walked [author’s emphasis] over straight away from the body, down over the hill [embankment].”5

It was as if he wanted Wiggins to see him before he, according to Wiggins, calmly walked away over the embankment. His unflustered demeanor appeared to contrast sharply with that of a trembling, petrified Ray Crump, only because they weren’t the same person.

Nearly thirty years later, in 1992, Leo Damore interviewed Henry Wiggins. The government’s star witness still vividly remembered, Damore said, the man standing over the woman’s body.

“He wasn’t afraid,” Wiggins recalled to Damore. “He didn’t appear to be worried that he’d been caught in the act. He looked straight at me.”

Ray Crump’s acquittal, however, had come as a surprise to Wiggins. He confided to Damore that he felt “strung along” by the prosecution and had been “used” to present their case. After Wiggins testified, Hantman told him that he “hadn’t done well as a witness.” Wiggins told Damore, “I just told the truth as I saw it. That’s all. The police didn’t do a damn thing to support it.”6

As the interview came to an end, Henry Wiggins proffered one last reflection about what had happened that day.

“You know, sometimes I’ve had the feeling I was kinda set up there that morning to see what I saw.”7 It was the kind of remark that wouldn’t have been lost on a crime sleuth — someone like Sherlock Holmes, or Leo Damore.

Dressed to Kill
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Almost from the moment Lieutenant William L. Mitchell, USA, had appeared at D.C Metropolitan Police headquarters the day after Mary’s murder, attorney Dovey Roundtree’s suspicions had been aroused. Mitchell told police he not only believed he had passed the murder victim as he ran eastward toward Key Bridge from Fletcher’s Boat House that day, but also that he was sure he had passed a “Negro male” following her.

His description of the man and his clothes closely matched Wiggins’s.

[Ed.: Mitchell had said the “Negro male” was about his own (Mitchell’s) size, which was 5 feet 8 inches and 145 pounds. But Crump, according to his driver’s license, was 5 foot 3 ½, and 130 pounds — considerably smaller than Mitchell. And, unlike Wiggins, Mitchell had a much closer view of the “Negro male,” which makes his description all the more suspicious.]



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NOVEMBER 13, 2017 | DICK RUSSELL
THE JFK FILES: NEW LIGHT ON OSWALD AND MEXICO CITY

Those with a stake in avoiding the truth about John F. Kennedy’s assassination want you to believe Lee Harvey Oswald was a lone nut. If you won’t accept that, they have a fallback position: “It’s even worse. He was working for the commies.”

That “alternative” scenario revolves around a purported Oswald trip to Mexico City in the months before Kennedy’s death, when he allegedly visited Soviet and Cuban missions, met with a handler and sought his escape path to his beloved USSR.

There’s just one problem with this narrative. It probably isn’t true.

While the full truth has not yet surfaced, hints of the real story can be gleaned from long-buried documents recently released by the National Archives.

Connecting all the dots is a challenge, even for investigators who have devoted their lives to this task. But progress continues to be made in shining light on what may be history’s most consequential unsolved murder.

Here is the latest from this investigatory front.

Twice over the past week-and-a-half, the National Archives posted new documents as mandated by the President John F. Kennedy Records Collection Act of 1992. First came 676 records and then a whopping 13,213 more. While WhoWhatWhy’s special JFK Records Team has just begun probing this trove for new revelations, preliminary results are intriguing.

Jefferson Morley, author of a just-published biography of the CIA’s longtime counterintelligence chief James Angleton, points out a telling code name on an Agency cable dated October 8, 1963. The cable was sent from the Mexico Station Chief, Winston Scott, under the subject heading LCIMPROVE. As first defined by the CIA for the House Committee on Assassinations in 1978, this cryptonym specified “counter-espionage involving Soviet intelligence services worldwide.” That was Angleton’s domain, and the Scott cable specifically described contacts between Oswald and Consul Valery Kostikov at the Soviet embassy in Mexico City.

As the CIA’s internal 23-page report on Oswald’s stay in Mexico (104-10004-10199) puts it: “it is believed that [Kostikov] works for Department 13 of the KGB, the Department charged with sabotage and assassinations.” This (continued CIA officer “GPFLOOR” in his internal report from the Mexico Station) was “a particularly sinister aspect of OSWALD’s dealings with the Soviets in Mexico City.” The report was dispatched on December 19, 1963, to C/CI [Counterintelligence] from John Whitten of the Western Hemisphere Division, who initially handled the CIA’s investigation in-house.

Surely, James Angleton saw this report, as well as Scott’s pre-assassination cable. Yet, more than curiously, the day after Scott’s October 8 cable was sent, senior FBI agents removed Oswald’s name from a list of persons of interest to the Bureau. Although the FBI had interviewed Oswald on a number of occasions after his return from the USSR in June 1962, suddenly he was no longer deemed worthy of close scrutiny. Had the FBI gotten word from Angleton’s branch of the CIA?

Mexico, phone, passport
The CIA intercepted a call to the Soviet Embassy in Mexico City.
Photo credit: Adapted by WhoWhatWhy from Max Pixel, Alex Covarrubias / Wikimedia and US Department of State.

We haven’t yet seen FBI files related to that decision — which was effected only six weeks prior to the assassination — but we do know that Jane Roman of Angleton’s staff went on to receive and initial an FBI report concerning Oswald on November 15. It came from senior agent Warren DeBrueys of the FBI’s New Orleans office, stating that Oswald had returned from Mexico City and was living in Texas. Angleton’s staff had been closely monitoring Oswald since his alleged defection to the Soviet Union in 1959.

The Mexico City story has long been a jigsaw with numerous loose ends. The Warren Commission Report, for example, mentioned Kostikov in passing as “one of the KGB officers stationed at the embassy.” In the late 1970s, when author Anthony Summers interviewed two Cuban officials said to have seen Oswald at their embassy, neither remained certain he was actually the man who’d come there demanding a visa on September 27.

So what are we learning now?

The post-assassination chronicle by GPFLOOR (headed “We Discover Lee OSWALD in Mexico City”) led off with a description of a phone call the CIA’s Mexico station intercepted on October 1, with Oswald using his own name and speaking broken Russian. He talked to the embassy guard, Obyedkov, “who often answers the phone.” Oswald said he’d visited the embassy a few days earlier and spoken to a consul whose name he’d forgotten but “who had promised to send a telegram for him to Washington. He wanted to know if there were ‘anything new’….




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November 14, 2017
Recently released FBI files show L. Ron Hubbard offering to inform on his own organization
Hubbard, blaming a bad breakup on Communists, pledged his services to fight the Red Menace, including the names and fingerprints of every member of his Scientology precursor
Written by Emma Best
Edited by JPat Brown
Recently released Federal Bureau of Investigation files show that just over a year after L. Ron Hubbard created the the Hubbard Dianetic Research Foundation, a precursor to the Church of Scientology, he offered to become an informant for the Bureau, and provide the FBI with a list of its members and copies of their fingerprints.

While previously published books have mentioned part of this, significant details are disclosed in recently released FBI files as a result of a FOIA lawsuit jointly brought by the author along with Radar Online, represented pro bono by Dan Novack. While the books describe Hubbard’s willingness to throw certain members of his Dianetics Foundation under the bus, the FBI’s files show that his paranoia left him more than willing to provide the Bureau with information on every member of his foundation, including fingerprint cards. While this was ostensibly done in the name of fighting Communism and rooting out any supposed Communist subversives that had made their way into his group, the context leaves no doubt that it was in response to his wife leaving him and accusations that he had kidnapped and drugged her.



While the initial letter from Hubbard only offered a handful of names, it promised that he would follow-up soon, mentioning that the Foundation had recently decided to fingerprint its members and require they sign an oath of loyalty to the U.S. Government, which COS would later infiltrate and attempt to undermine while stealing classified files and other government documents.



According to an FBI memo dated March 7th, 1951, Hubbard alleged that one of the Communists had been “instrumental in driving Hubbard’s wife, Sara Elizabeth Northrup, to the point of insanity.” Insanity, to Hubbard, apparently meant attempting to leave him and terminate their marriage.



According to the same memo, Hubbard told the Bureau that “Dianetics can be used to combat Communism” through unspecified means.



The FBI would later receive an anonymous note building off of Hubbard’s claim, asserting that Communism was an “illness” which Dianetics could cure. The letter signed by Hubbard doesn’t seem to explain why he was unable to “cure” the suspected Communists within his organization, or why he needed the FBI’s help.



The FBI memo citing the anonymous letter noted that there was some “individual” Communists within the Foundation, the activities of which were “of particular interest to sexual perverts and hypochondriacs.”



This seems to refer to letters the Bureau had received the previous year, alleging that the “Dynatic [sic] Club” was a Communist cell. According to this warning, members of the Foundation would “make contact with perverts in Government employment” and threaten them with exposure “unless they furnish information.” “Perverts in government service” refers to both an underexamined part of McCarthyism and the associated Lavender Scare, with the term “pervert” being applied to anyone who wasn’t cisgendered or heterosexual.



Another FBI memo notes that Hubbard attempted to give credence to his claims and the utility of Dianetics by asserting that he had been “psychoanalyzed” in Chicago and “found to be quite normal.”



Within a few days of Hubbard’s letter to the Bureau, J. Edgar Hoover wrote back to Hubbard, thanking him for the information he had provided while declining his offer to accept fingerprints of Hubbard’s employees. Hoover’s letter noted that the Bureau had no authority to handle fingerprints unless they were provided by law enforcement or other state and federal government agencies.



By this time, however, the Foundation had already issued its directive requiring employees, staff members, and auditors to sign the loyalty pledge and provide copies of their fingerprints. The letter stated that there was “a world conflict against Communist tyranny” and that Dianetics was extremely American. According to Ronald DeWolf, Hubbard’s son, Hubbard would not only later steal classified documents from the U.S. Government, he sold secrets to the KGB.



While the FBI refused the fingerprints offered by Hubbard, they did investigate some of the accusations - specifically whether or not the Foundation was being used to influence “patients” to join the Communist Party.



Within a few months, the Bureau had received new accusations alleging that the Foundation had taken part in sexual exploitation.



The FBI apparently felt that the accusations of sexual slavery didn’t describe a violation of federal law, but that the Bureau would continue to receive inquiries and so they should save the information anyway.



Shortly after this, the Attorney General received a letter from Hubbard alleging that Communists had “wiped out a half a million dollar operation” of his. They had also, according to Hubbard’s claims, cost him his health and interfered with “material of interest” to the U.S. Government.



Hubbard’s letter went on to assert that he was “basically a scientist” in atomic theory, because he had studied in in college. He then “followed this into the fields of human thought” and “identified an energy.”


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Officers Kept in Room Together After Shooting Death, Jury Hears
November 14, 2017
PHOENIX
A police officer testified Tuesday that he and other officers present during the shooting death of a man at a hotel outside Phoenix were held in a room together for an hour before they were interviewed about the incident.

The testimony came as part of the trial for Philip “Mitch” Brailsford, a former Mesa, Arizona, police officer charged with second-degree murder in Daniel Shaver’s 2016 death. Brailsford was fired from the department after the shooting.

Shaver, who worked in pest control, was seen handling an air rifle in La Quinta Inn & Suites room by a couple in the hotel’s jacuzzi. The couple reported it to the hotel, which then called 911.

Police arrived and ordered Shaver and a guest, Monique Portillo, to crawl from the hotel room toward officers. Brailsford then fired a number of shots at Shaver, killing him.

The defense claims the shooting was justified since Brailsford saw Shaver reach toward the waistband of his basketball shorts.

Officer Bryan Cochran testified Tuesday he and three other officers present during the shooting were held together in a police substation for an hour.

“They weren’t quite sure at that time if they wanted to interview us orally,” Cochran said.

He also testified to seeing Brailsford’s father, a former Mesa Police Department employee, at the substation speaking with his son.

Mesa Detective Paul Sipe told the court Tuesday afternoon that if true, that would be highly unusual. Sipe said he had not heard the officers were held together until he listened to Cochran’s testimony.

Sipe also detailed training Mesa officers receive in identifying threats.

“We have to asses if there is obviously an identifiable threat, if there is a gun in their hand,” Sipe said. “Having a gun in your hand without making any type of threatening gesture is not generally a situation where we would shoot.”

Prosecutor Susie Charbel asked what an officer should do if a suspect has a gun in the waistband of their basketball shorts.

“You don’t have a necessary threat at that point until some type of motion is made for the gun,” Sipe testified.

When Sipe arrived on the scene after the shooting, he was briefed that a man pointing a rifle out a window at the La Quinta was shot and killed by Brailsford after being uncooperative with officers and reaching his hand behind his back “in a threatening manner.”

Sipe said when he interviewed Portillo, he was told a different story then what he heard during the briefing.

Earlier in the day, Cochran testified he called Shaver in his hotel room to order him and Portillo to exit the room, with Portillo entering the hallway first.

“I was under the interpretation that he understood,” Cochran said about the phone call. “The purpose of me asking the female to come out first was to prevent any hostage situation.”

When Shaver entered the hallway, he was told by Sgt. Charles Langley to lay down on the ground, cross his feet, and put his hands on his head. He was then instructed to crawl in the direction of the officers.

“Part of your training is people can have small little handguns that can be secreted in pockets, waistbands, underwear,” defense attorney Michael Piccarreta told the court. “And when you are in a gun call, and especially a call like this, you have to presume the person is armed until they’ve been frisked.”

In body camera footage shown during opening arguments, Shaver seemed confused by Langley’s directions and was crying before he was shot. He had reportedly been drinking before the incident.

Cochran said he didn’t think Shaver had been drinking until after the shooting occurred.

“His demeanor, his behavior, he seemed like he was confused. It seemed odd that he was under stress, that he was that confused,” Cochran testified.

After his testimonys, Maricopa County Superior Judge George Foster asked Cochran on behalf of the jury if he focused




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